Previously, Daley ran the international policy brief Parallax News, which sought to disrupt digital filter bubbles leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. From 2009 to 2014, he worked at Boo-Hooray as an archivist and ops manager, focusing on political movements and counterculture. During this time, Daley facilitated the sale of cultural collections to institutions such as Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Cornell's Rare & Manuscript Collections, and Georgetown's Lauinger Library.